TY  - CONF
A1  - Wiese, Heike
A2  - Moore, Johanna D.
A2  - Stenning, Keith
T1  - Did language give us numbers? : Symbolic thinking and the emergence of systematic numerical cognition
T2  - Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Edinburgh, August 1-4, 2001
N2  - What role does language play in the development of numerical cognition? In the present paper I argue that the evolution of symbolic thinking (as a basis for language) laid the grounds for the emergence of a systematic concept of number. This concept is grounded in the notion of an infinite sequence and encompasses number assignments that can focus on cardinal aspects ("three pencils"), ordinal aspects ("the third runner"), and even nominal aspects ("bus #3"). I show that these number assignments are based on a specific association of relational structures, and that it is the human language faculty that provides a cognitive paradigm for such an association, suggesting that language played a pivotal role in the evolution of systematic numerical cognition.
KW  - Lexikologie
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14119
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1150568
UR  - http://www.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/projects/germanistik-07/Publikationen/HWEd01.pdf
SP  - 1118-1
EP  - 1118-6
PB  - Erlbaum
CY  - Mahwah, NJ
ER  -